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Seminar Series

2019-20

SPRING 2020

鈥� **CANCELLED (to be rescheduled)**听Wednesday 18th March 2020, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Institute of Education (20 Bedford Way), Room 790, Breakdown 2

Federica Chiocchetti (photocaptionist.com) in conversation with Robert Lumley (果冻影院)

A Love Affair between Photographs and Words

In this talk Federica Chiocchetti, in conversation with Robert Lumley, looks at theoretical and artistic practices of nineteenth-century and contemporary authors, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Sophie Calle, that subverted traditional hierarchies in the relationship of word and image.

This event is in collaboration with the 鈥淚mage and Thought Network鈥� of The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities (TORCH)

础鲍罢鲍惭惭听2019

鈥⑻�Wednesday 4th December 2019,听5:30-7:30pm, Room 113, Foster Court (1st floor of 果冻影院 Foster Court Building, 果冻影院 Bloomsbury Campus)

Javier Fernand谩ndez-S谩nchez (University of Gdansk, Poland)

Modal Ellipsis as Surface Anaphora
Abstract:
In this talk I will discuss a phenomenon that I will refer to as Modal Ellipsis (ME) in Romance languages. Descriptively speaking, ME involves a modal verb with an empty complement:
(1) 听
a. John smokes, but he really shouldn鈥檛. (Eng)
b. Dovrei mangiare la pizza e anche Gianni dovrebbe.(It Cecchetto and Percus 2006)
c. Beber茅 agua porque alcohol no puedo.听 (Sp)
Despite being silent, the complement of the modal is clearly understood, so the question arises as to where meaning is coming from. Among the literature on ME in Romance, it is Spanish that has received most attention, in particular Depiante (2000, 2001). She argues that ME in Spanish (and Italian) is an instance of deep anaphora in the sense of Hankamer and Sag (1976), and posits the existence of a null pronoun selected by the modal which gets interpreted contextually like regular pronouns do:
(2) 听 听John smokes but he really shouldn鈥檛 PRON.
I will review her arguments and conclude that, upon closer scrutiny, ME should be treated as a case of surface anaphora, where the gap after the modal contains a fully fledged syntactic structure unpronounced at PF:
(3) 听 听John smokes but he really shouldn鈥檛 smoke.
One of the arguments I will focus on concerns clitic climbing. Zubizarreta (1982) and Cinque (1998) noted that clitic climbing in Spanish and Italian respectively are incompatible with ME:
(4) 听 听
a. *Juan las puede ver, y Mar铆a tambi茅n las puede.
听 听 听 Juan them can see and Maria also them can
b. *Gianni lo puo vedere e anche Maria lo puo.
听 听 听 听Gianni him can see and also Maria him can
Depiante (2000,2001) takes this as an argument in favour of her proposal: if there was unpronounced syntactic structure (3), the clitic could have easily extracted from there. The fact that it cannot is compatible with the idea that the complement of the modal in ME is atomic (2), as we don鈥檛 expect anything to be able to be extracted. I will claim (i) that extraction is indeed possible in ME, and (ii) that the data in (4) can be accounted for in different terms.

• Wednesday 30th October 2019, 5:30-7:30 pm, Foster Court, room 217

Anna Dolfi (Universit脿 di Firenze)

Giorgio Bassani e le leggi razziali: rappresentare la storia tra memoria e testimonianza

Quale rapporto esiste tra scrittura, autobiografia e memoria? Quale relazione tra invenzione e verit脿 storica, tra necessit脿 artistica e bisogno di essere fedele a un reale ineludibile che rende necessario il dovere della testimonianza? Come si configura l鈥檌mpegno per un intellettuale che ha creduto fermamente alla dimensione 鈥榩oetica鈥� e in qualche modo 鈥榓ssoluta鈥� dell鈥檃rte?
脠 da queste domande che partir脿 Anna Dolfi per riflettere sull鈥檕pera di uno dei narratori pi霉 importanti della terza generazione novecentesca, Giorgio Bassani, che ha posto al centro della sua narrativa e di gran parte della sua poesia un luogo deputato, Ferrara, negli anni delle leggi razziali e in quelli immediatamente vicini, e che ha avuto occasione di dichiarare: 鈥淯n鈥檜manit脿 che dimenticasse Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, io non posso accettarla. Scrivo perch茅 ci se ne ricordi鈥�.

• Wednesday 16th October 2019, 5:30-7:30 pm, Foster Court, room 217

Domenico Scarpa (Centro internazionale di studi Primo Levi)

Le preistorie e la Storia. Leonardo Sciascia dalla 芦prova democristiana禄 al delitto Moro

Sciascia ha voluto che il canone della sua opera cominciasse con Le parrocchie di Regalpetra, pubblicato nel 1956 all鈥檈t脿 di trentacinque anni. L鈥檌nizio ufficiale di questa storia d鈥檃utore 猫 preceduto da una stratificazione di preistorie 鈥� letterarie, civili, politiche 鈥� finora poco indagate e non tutte discernibili. Solo qualche anno fa 猫 emerso che Sciascia attravers貌, tra il 1947 e il 1951, una fase di contiguit脿 con le battaglie autonomiste di una parte della Dc siciliana, e che vi contribu矛 con idee che avrebbe sostenuto lungo tutta la sua esistenza. Fra le sue preistorie d鈥檃utore, questa pi霉 di altre consente d鈥檌nterpretare in una maniera nuova la sua stance etico-politica negli anni 鈥�70 e, in particolare, nel frangente storico del delitto Moro.

2018-19

鈥⑻齋aturday 1st June 2019,听Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL,听Room 834 (Core B, Level 8)
This event is sponsored by the 果冻影院 Global Engagement Funds.
The Diasporic Canon. Anthologies of Italian Literature in Translation

9:00鈥�9:15, Introductions
9:15鈥�9:45, Niccol貌 Scaffai (Universit茅 de Lausanne) 鈥淟e forme del canone: le antologie di letteratura contemporanea in Italia鈥�
9:45鈥�10:15, Marie-Jos茅 Tramuta (Universit茅 de Caen Normandie), 鈥淎ntologie poetiche in Francia: le ragioni di una poesia鈥�
10:15鈥�10:45, Coffee break
10:45鈥�11:15, Daniela La Penna (University of Reading), 鈥淏roken glass in the Italian garden: traduzione, accademia e periodizzazione nelle antologie poetiche italiane in Gran Bretagna鈥�
11:15鈥�11:45, Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), 鈥淭he Diasporico Canon. Antologie americane di poesia italiana contemporanea鈥�
11.45-12:00, Closing remarks
12:00 鈥� 14:00, Lunch break
14:00鈥�14:30, Beatrice Sica (果冻影院), 鈥淪amuel Putnam, 鈥楾his Quarter鈥� and the European Caravan鈥�
14:30鈥�15:00, Alejandro Patat (Universit脿 per Stranieri di Siena), 鈥淟鈥檃ntologia della letteratura italiana nella rivista 鈥楽ur鈥� (1953)鈥�
15:00鈥�15:30, Coffee break
15:30鈥�16:00, Stefano Colangelo (Universit脿 di Bologna), 鈥淎ntologie contemporanee: canone e transizione鈥�
16:00鈥�16:30, Rosita Copioli (poet), 鈥淓sperienze di antologie鈥�
16:30鈥�17:00, Closing remarks

Programme - Spring Term 2019

All seminars (unless otherwise stated) are held on Wednesdays from 5.30pm in Foster Court, room 351, Malet Place, 果冻影院, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.

23 January	Giuliana Benvenuti (University of Bologna) Il Graphic Novel 猫 un animale mitologico? (the talk will be in Italian)
6 February	Federica Pich (University of Leeds) Petrarch, the lyric and the reader
20 February	Luca Marcozzi (University of Roma Tre) Dante and poverty
27 February	Roberto Ubbidiente (Humboldt Universit盲t zu Berlin) Pinocchio senza "Cuore". Collodi e la favolizzazione della renitenza sociogenetica degli italiani (the talk will be in Italian)
6 March	Francesco Buscemi (Max Planck Institute) Staging Loyalty. Oath taking and the feeling rules of Italian republicanism (1796-1799)

Other Events

Italian Film Club

The calendar (including some special screenings) will be posted on the film club's blog page.

The movies will be in Italian with Italian or English subtitles and will be introduced by Dr Cristina Massaccesi (contact:听c.massaccesi@ucl.ac.uk).

Rome Lecture Series

Organisers

• 听Dr Lesley Caldwell, SELCS Italian, 果冻影院
• , History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London

Call for Papers

The organisers invite all those working on or interested in any aspect of Rome to attend and welcome suggestions for papers.

About

This lecture series grew out of an earlier series of research seminars on 鈥楻ome: the Growth of the City from the Return of the Popes to the Present鈥�, which supported jointly by the Italian department and Birkbeck College, with assistance from the Italian Cultural Institute, the British School at Rome, the Comune of Rome, and the Region of Lazio.

Nine all-day meetings were held between 2005-2008. They brought together scholars from a range of disciplines with a shared interest in Rome and its development as a metropolis. The central theme of reading the present 鈥� be it the Renaissance or the twenty-first century 鈥� through the city鈥檚 inescapable past produced a highly original approach that has been lacking from both Anglophone histories of Rome and urban studies. A book based on these seminars听was published by Ashgate.

Following the conclusion of the three-year project, the series has been maintained as a termly lecture. Speakers who have given lectures to date are: John David Rhodes (Sussex), Rose Marie San Juan (果冻影院), Jacopo Benci (British School at Rome), Eileen Rubery (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Mark Wilson Jones (Bath).

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